#Chatter

[bonni]

what mangione's lawyer said about eric adams is so real though. this is a corrupt, malignant, and deeply stupid man who is currently being indicted, he would do absolutely anything to get the spotlight off of him for a day

[hyrude]

candles i made out of my pottery!

[themetalhiro]

Just stumbled across the Pokémon teams I made with my partner for all 10 of the strawhat pirates. Took like 3 hours and several bottles of wine. maybe I’ll draw them when I have the time?

[badgebadge314]

Ooo ty!!

ok so: tag 5ish people and say what type of light u think they are, and when u reblog, say what type of light u think the prev person was✨

@temerity14 - lightning

@pseudocyance - starlight

@phecdasolar - moonlight

@piromina - Street light

@cats-r-arsome - sunlight

[enfranchisement]

hello?

[same-pic-rick-roll]

With how popular the haiku bot is, any post it reblogs is bound to gain a lot of notes.

I occaisonially reblog from the haiku bot.

So it occurs to me that, sometimes, I help niche posts break containment.

[roseslights]

this was just something I drew to send to a friend but thought was funni

[badgebadge314]

Don't worry moon!! I made u a cake today instead anyway because I couldn't yesterday ✨

(it's vanilla and blueberries btw)

HAPPY 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOON CRASHING INTO HERMITLANDS EVERYBODY!!!!

We're all very old ✨👍✨

[cybertronplannedparenthood]

has anyone else considered how insane an orion pax amnesia arc ala tfp would be in the tf1 universe. “dee? is that you? where are we?” megatron being so fucking excited to have his boyfriend best friend back after eons of unfulfilling work leading the decepticons, only to realize that mentally orion’s picking up right after d-16 let go of his servo. megatron, who has spent the last four million years actively crushing down his own emotional intelligence, now being forced to express his regret for that horrible day (in a way that still paints him as having the moral high ground, naturally). him having to come up with an excuse for why orion shouldn’t trust elita or bee anymore, or try to contact any of their old mining friends. teeny tiny kitten-finials no-cog orion next to Literal Part-Time Tank megatron. the mask starting to slip as orion asks more questions, and the most damning question of all, which is whether the mask is megatron’s cold brutality or d-16’s gentleness. is this thing on

[bonni]

imagine if it isn't him and we've all just been cyberstalking some random italian guy who's already having the worst day of his life

[fruitcd]

It was not baru 4 but it was SOMETHING!!!!!!

[jainesity]

How I imagine Philza’s chat

[prefrontal-bastard]

I’m not sure if this is permitted in other countries, but here in the US, advertisers are allowed to use any kind of malignant psychology they want in their ads so long as those ads fit within the allotted time-frame.

Back in high school, my class watched a video on how a certain Coca-Cola advertisement was made. You may have seen it, but for those who haven’t: The ad featured a cinematic montage of a crowded beach with smiling thin white people enjoying their leisure time and drinking Coca-Cola out of a common plastic bottle.

The big takeaway from this video was that the ad wasn’t actually advertising Coca-Cola. It was advertising a lifestyle. By associating Coca-Cola with a desirable lifestyle (as well as qualities associated with desirability) it plants the association of “Coca-Cola” with “happiness” in people’s subconscious minds.

This becomes clear when you consider who the ad was meant for. The target audience wasn’t the smiling thin white people that the ad featured, but instead it was people who wanted to be smiling thin white people. This was an ad for the Gen X mom of three kids who worked full-time, who relied on shelf-stable foods to keep everyone fed, and whose nervous system was chronically fried from the stress of never having adequate time for herself.

If she was at the grocery store, and saw the very same bottle of Coca-Cola featured in that ad, she’d be far more likely to pick it up than she was before watching it. If she didn’t anticipate finding relief for her stress, then she could at least drink up the idea of it.

Of course, the thing about ads is that they stop working. Eventually, people’s minds grow wise to the fact buying a certain product doesn’t actually grant them the lifestyle associated with them.

But there’s a lot of other tricks ads employ beyond this.

The reason why Geico is the first company you consider when thinking about buying car insurance is because of the calm, consistent nature of their ads and the fact they’re ubiquitous enough to be familiar. Their mascot forms a kind of parasocial rapport with the audience, so Geico already feels familiar to you by the time you’re looking to buy insurance.

Cereal brands use cartoon-character-like mascots to make their product memorable to kids who can’t read. The reason why so many cereal mascots exhibit such frenetic, possessive behavior is to teach kids to emulate that behavior to compel parents into buying them the cereal, especially if they saw that behavior rewarded in the ad (with the cereal).

You only really see ads for apps on an app-based devices for a reason.

Then there are the ads that don’t look like ads, but look like people on TikTok sharing a new secret product with their audience using the only communication format we regularly trust: word-of-mouth.

And let’s not forget the sheer magnitude of ads that exist. I can’t go outside without seeing them. I can’t watch videos online without exposing myself to ads that wants to skewer my emotions within 10 seconds.

There’s no reprieve from it unless I wall myself off from our culture entirely.

Ads are parasites to both culture and to cognition, and they must be regulated.

[pinkpogiclub]

god put me on this earth to infiltrate male dominated sports spaces and talk about gay sex

[themetalhiro]

Really no joke here, just something about my friends weaponizing peer pressure and trickery for my benefit makes me smile.